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Being Conscious About Our Unconscious Biases

QAspire

The term ‘cognitive bias’ was coined by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in 1972 which quite simply means “our tendency to filter information, process facts and arrive at judgments based on our past experiences, likes/dislikes and automatic influences.”. Embrace Diversity. What is Unconscious Bias. This starts with hiring decisions.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. This is how the wisdom of crowds becomes the madness of crowds.

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The Business Lessons of the Belmont Stakes

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman , a renowned psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, developed this concept in the 1970s along with his collaborator, Amos Tversky. For a market to be efficient, where price is an unbiased estimate of value, investors must be cognitively diverse. This is how the wisdom of crowds becomes the madness of crowds.

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